h1x | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj
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h1x | 1 year ago | on: Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
From the profile info:
Patrick Wyatt - game developer and programmer (Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Guild Wars, battle.net) - co-founder of ArenaNet - blogger: www.codeofhonor.com
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h1x | 4 years ago | on: The strange path of accepting how your brain works
> whats the alternative? depression? meth?
I certainly don't recommend it for everyone, but for Paul Erdős apparently some drugs worked well.
h1x | 4 years ago | on: Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
Exactly this. Runit was designed to be simple and in simple software, at some point, there is just not much to improve.
h1x | 4 years ago | on: Basic Telemetry for Audacity
Initial response from the company:
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/n6kxm8/psa_aud...
Basically, "everything's fine, you can trust us".
h1x | 5 years ago | on: Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
For sure there are also other use cases, where just putting entries in /etc/hosts is not enough and it's useful to add one more entry to DNS resolver on machines that should be able to reach specific and probably dynamic destinations.
That's actually a fun exercise to come up with these use cases.
h1x | 5 years ago | on: Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
I still think it might meet OP's requirements: "I just need to type something in that's not the IP address of my VPS".
Sure, there might be other requirements, and it's not clear what the exact use case is, but it also might be useful.
h1x | 5 years ago | on: Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
https://www.opennic.org might be useful to you.
h1x | 5 years ago | on: How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
linux console user here too :-).
w3m works really great with framebuffer. imho it renders webpages in a cleanset way, compared to all other text browsers. plus it has default vim-like keybindings.
h1x | 5 years ago | on: How and why I attempt to use Links as main browser
It's still doing good: https://github.com/tats/w3m
I am a very happy using w3m every day. Just occasionally there is a need to use a graphical browser.
There is no JS support though. Don't think there ever was.
h1x | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Bash Script to Install a Webserver and PHP on a Clean OS
What a great comment. It makes sense to not spend too much space on the quality of the script in it, so I want to do it shortly in this one.
This script is beautiful.
I write and read shell scripts mostly for fun, and this one is something I will refer to for quite some time. It really shows that shell scripts can be nice and readable.
__app_dev__, thank you for your 'Show HN' submission.
h1x | 6 years ago | on: What Unix Cost Us [video]
> To take it to an obvious extreme: what is the Unix version of Excel? `set_cell A4 'hello' && recalculate_formula B5 && cat A1:D2 | pi_chart`??
That's a nice question. It's not that obvious extreme for me though.
You could use sc and GNU plot (I know... GNU's not Unix). Simple example:
- first you configure your plot
$ echo "set terminal png\nset output 'plot.png'\nplot '/dev/stdin' with lines" > plotcfg.plg
- then you create a spreadsheet and pass it to gnuplot. It's easier to edit the spreadsheet with sc's TUI
$ echo 'let A0 = 1\nlet B0 = 8\nlet A1 = 2\nlet B1 = 16\nlet A2 = 3\nlet B2 = 32\n' | sc -W '%' - | gnuplot plotcfg.plg
h1x | 6 years ago | on: What Unix Cost Us [video]
Also thought that some of the technical points were good, but...
Mixing together Linux and Unix? Saying that killing a process from command line in Linux is bad because MacOS has GUI for that? Not explaining in more detail a claim that C is responsible for Spectre? Topping a technical presentation with political statements?
That's too much for 30 minutes I think.
h1x | 6 years ago | on: Vincent Canfield comments on his expulsion from the 36C3
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21905761
h1x | 6 years ago | on: Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”
> knowing what the majority wants is still interesting.
Totally agree.
> Looking at the most voted option tells you what the majority thinks.
My point is that the options are designed specifically for this type of voting system.
Here it is possible that anti-systemd votes are spread across many options and pro systemd votes are concentrated in only one or two. So even if you have most votes on "Focus on systemd" it doesn't mean that it is what most people want.
h1x | 6 years ago | on: Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”
> the runner up option is Proposal F "Focus on systemd". Proposal F is also the most voted option.
I'd say that in this voting system a statment like that is not really important in any way. You'd have to compare it to sum of options that don't focus on systemd as an example or some other combinations.
* fixed proposal letter in the quote
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This is a really unfortunate choice of the binary name - it collides with a classic UNIX utility. I use it everyday and it would be very annoying for the program to do something unexpected.
Edit: apt install sl